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The Nxt Foundation has announced it has become an Associate member of the Hyperledger Project with the Linux Foundation, joining the likes of like IBM, JP Morgan Chase, Intel and the Moscow Exchange. Nxt joined Hyperledger to contribute their expertise with distributed ledgers by advising on industry-specific applications that support...

Hyperledger Project, a collaborative cross-industry effort created to advance blockchain technology, has announced that Airbus has joined as a Premier member of the project. As a Premier member, Airbus will actively contribute to the development of the project's mission to create an enterprise grade, open source distributed ledger technology. Brian...

Synereo, the blockchain-based social network, today provided a glimpse of its user interface in its latest update. The project team is also looking for new exchanges to accept its AMP coin. For its frontend, Synereo is backing away from a drag-n-drop model but is still fully committed to a reactive...

MaidSafe, the company leading development of a decentralized internet platform without specialized servers and data centers, is introducing a code bounty program to attract developers to build its SAFE Network. The bounties will be paid out in bitcoins only. Nick Lambert, MaidSafe's head of marketing, stated the following: We have...

Scotland-based MaidSafe will soon release the first development bundle of its SAFE network roadmap. The idea behind MaidSafe, which literally stands for "Massive Array of Internet Disks" is to reconfigure the Internet by building a "fully cross platform, fully decentralized autonomous data and communications network" that eliminates the need for data...

With a projected US$1 billion in venture capital invested for 2015 and a rapidly growing user base, it is fairly obvious now that cryptocurrency and the blockchain technology have an important role to play in the development of global financial technology going forward. The question is whether digital currency could replace fiat...

Blockchain-based social network Synereo recently revealed that all proprietary tokens, called AMPs, purchased during the crowdsale were being made available to the backers. Moreover, Synereo raised a modest $126,023 by selling 22,719,689 AMPs, but ultimately was allocating 45,439,378 AMPs. Hosted on the Bitcoin-based asset creation platform Omni Layer, the AMPs are reportedly now tradable on...

Blockchain 2.0 application layer play Factom has formed a partnership with medical records and services solutions provider, HealthNautica, to secure medical records and audit trails using the blockchain. Factom and HealthNautica hope to use Factom’s immutable ledger to verify and time-stamp medical records and claims for HealthNautica’s clients, including hospitals and physicians, to...

Synereo, the startup that is building a social network on the blockchain, has unveiled the prototype of its node software and changed the rules of its ongoing crowdsale of native coin AMP. In January, the teams behind Synereo and Splicious, another crowdfunded blockchain-based distributed social platform, announced that the projects...